Kudos

Kudos are reward points for helping the staff in the Varrock Museum. You receive experience points for various skills for accumulating certain amounts of kudos, as explained at Varrock Museum's rewards. Also, you will need 100 kudos to join a planned dig on an island north of Morytania, although the barge to go to the island has not been finished yet. To complete The Temple at Senntisten a player needs 125 kudos. Kudos also play a role in the Varrock Tasks, where achieving 50 kudos is one of the Easy tasks, and achieving 153 is a Hard task.

A player can earn a maximum of 198 kudos in the Varrock Museum activity through 5 different methods:

by cleaning finds (50 kudos)

by answering a quiz about museum exhibits, by speaking to Orlando Smith (or Mark Brodie, who is found at the same location, if you have completed The World Wakes) in the basement and reading the plaques on the exhibits (28 kudos)

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One way to earn kudos is by cleaning finds from the Digsite, found in the roped-off area of the museum, not the Digsite itself. In order to do this, you must have first completed The Dig Site quest. You must also be wearing leather gloves and leather boots, and have a trowel, a rock pick, and a specimen brush. All can be obtained from the tool rack on the south wall in the museum.

To clean a find, take a Dig Site specimen rock from the pile on the floor to the east just inside the roped-off area. Then Use the uncleaned find on one of the unused specimen tables. Usually this will result in some sort of item in your inventory (once in a great while the rock simply crumbles into dust).

If you find pottery, an ancient symbol, an old symbol, an ancient coin, or an old coin, show it to one of the NPCs working on the other specimen tables, they will instruct you which display case it should go in (or see the table in "Uncleaned find") and you will earn 10 museum kudos points. Notice that if you find more than one of each item, only the first instance goes in the display case and earns kudos; subsequent items can be placed in the storage crates. The chances of getting a Kudos related item is totally random and may take some time.

Other artefacts such as old chipped vases and arrowheads can be traded for prizes in the storage crates. Most of these prizes have some gold value, one notable exception is the antique lamp which grants 500 experience points to a skill over level 10 of your choice.

If you find jewellery and give it to any archaeologist, you will receive 5 coins. However, since nearly everything you receive in trade from the storage crates is worth more than 5 coins, giving it to an archaeologist is not useful.

The easiest way to earn kudos is to go into the museum's lower floor, and answer the natural history quiz questions on various creatures in RuneScape. This can provide 2 kudos for each correctly answered set of 3 questions for a total of 28.

If players relate the tale of how they completed certain quests to Historian Minas (found on the first floor), they earn kudos, as well as antique lamps that give 1,000 experience in a skill of the players' choice and an antique lamp granting 10,000 experience. If players completed these quests before the Kudos system was in place, they can still speak to him and receive the kudos owed to them.

If you speak to him without a tablet, you'll only receive 5 kudos, but you can get the other 5 if you bring him the tablet.

In case you destroyed the prophecy, talk to Baba Yaga about "astral rune" and bring an Unfinished astral rune and she will give you the Prophecy tablet once again. If the tablet has been previously obtained, it will be impossible to get another unfinished astral rune; instead skip that step and speak directly to Baba Yaga.

For the unfinished astral rune, talk to Chieftain Brundt to get it back, by asking about the birthday feast.